Happiness Is Wasted on Me
By: Kirkland Ciccone
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Cumbernauld was built to be the town of the future...that is, if the future looked like a really ru…
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1. The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
By: Janice Galloway
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
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"It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry."-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None …"-Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
2. Lunar Park
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more
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3. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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4. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more
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5. Juno Loves Legs
By: Karl Geary
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more
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6. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
7. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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8. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
9. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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10. The Last Witch of Scotland
By: Philip Paris
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more
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11. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
12. Paper Cup
By: Karen Campbell
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more
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13. Summerwater
By: Sarah Moss
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more
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14. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- historical
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
15. Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
By: Billy Connolly
4.19
Format: 261 pages, ebook
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions … read more
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"People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the k…"-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
"But I think I want to become part of Scotland when I die. In a coffin, you just turn to dust, so I would prefer to be buried in a wicker casket, or in a sheet like the Africans do, so that I actually…"-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
"inevitably I think sometimes about my death, but those thoughts go away as quickly as they come. I tend not to dwell on them. Somebody asked me if I wanted to join a suicide society. It’s some organi…"-Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
16. The Young Team
By: Graeme Armstrong
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more
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17. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
18. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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19. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
By: Emily Maitlis
4.10
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
The things that are said on camera are only part of the story. Behind every interview there is a… read more
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20. Ginger and Me
By: Elissa Soave
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more
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21. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
22. Rizzio
By: Denise Mina
3.87
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more
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23. There's Only One Danny Garvey
By: David F. Ross
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, … read more
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24. Duck Feet
By: Ely Percy
4.52
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more
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25. The Pharmacist
By: Rachelle Atalla
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to hea… read more
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26. The Black Dog
By: Kevin Bridges
3.60
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges… read more
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"There’s too much pressure on folk nowadays to try and fully eradicate any form of sadness…"-Kevin Bridges, The Black Dog
27. Hear No Evil
By: Sarah Smith
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more
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28. Dashboard Elvis is Dead
By: David F. Ross
4.09
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottis… read more
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29. Daisy on the Outer Line
By: Ross Sayers
4.35
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Life, Death & Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway. After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at he… read more
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30. My Brother the Killer: A Family Story
By: Alix Sharkey
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journ… read more
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31. Happiness Is Wasted on Me
By: Kirkland Ciccone
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Cumbernauld was built to be the town of the future...that is, if the future looked like a really ru… read more
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